Language Change


PPTs



Read the following chapters



Here are pdf files of the PowerPoint presentations that I made:



We will work on these Exercises in class if we have extra time, and also for homework:


Pick one of the categories to report on. Write your name(s) after the topic. No more than 2 people for each topic. You can use the PPTs above for your presentations or use them as references if you want to create your own presentation material. 6 minutes maximum time limit for each topic unless I wrote "Extra Time" after the presentation topic, in which case you can have a maximum of 12 minutes. Practice and time yourselves. Be efficient. If you don't need all 6 minutes, don't waste time by just babbling for a few minutes to kill time.

  1. Semantics and Change of Meaning (Don't do this one--I'll introduce the topic.)

  2. Generalization and Specialization (Sonia/ Angella)

  3. Transfer of Meaning ( ) Extra Time
  4. Pejoration and Amelioration (Kimi/Vivian Lin )

  5. Taboo and Euphemism ( Vivian/Lillian)

  6. Fate of Intensifying Words (Eunice/Andy )
  7. Some Circumstances of Semantic Change (Eva/Jenny)

  8. Creating Words: Root Creations/Echoic Words/Ejaculations (Oswald /Jessica )

  9. Compounding (Arthur/William ) Extra Time

  10. Affixing (Ria/Grace)

  11. Shortening Words: Clipped/ Initialisms (Elsa/Erica)

  12. Back-formations (Carmen)

  13. Blending ( Serena/ Yunyun)

  14. Shifting Words from one part of speech to another (Belle )

  15. Common Words from Proper Names (Sandy/Allen)